Thursday, April 10, 2008

Local Matters - Sr. Q/A Engineer

[rmiug-jobs] Digest Number 4469

Contract to Hire Sr. Q/A Engineer needed in Denver, CO (Lodo)
Posted by: "Patty Tate" ptate@localmatters.com
Date: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:58 pm ((PDT))


Senior Quality Assurance Engineer






At Local Matters, headquartered in a historic former coffin factory in
LoDo, we're building some of the highest traffic local search sites in
the world - across voice, wireless, and internet channels - and we're
looking for the best and the brightest to grow our team.





Position Summary
This position is responsible for ensuring high quality software
implementations from initial requirements to final deliverable by
working with all relevant stakeholders. The ideal candidate has
excellent communication skills, strong time management and task
prioritization skills, and works with other team members, development
staff, customers and management to understand and coordinate the testing
efforts of multiple projects. This person is responsible for all aspects
of the manual testing effort for multiple projects. The primary
responsibility of this role is black box testing - including functional,
integration, system, regression, and acceptance testing. As a senior
member of the team, this person is expected to assist in mentoring and
training of less experienced testing staff.



This position is responsible for designing and implementing test cases,
preparing test data, test execution, and reviewing and evaluating test
results. This candidate will work closely with developers and the test
automation team to identify areas and methods to improve testing
efficiency, expand coverage and increase product reliability.



Test and QA responsibilities include comprehensive testing of both a web
based local search solution and several thick client, custom designed
tools.

The development technologies include:

* J2EE
* JSP, Java
* HTML
* XML
* XPath
* Spring
* SWT / Swing
* Linux
* Postgres / Oracle / SQL



This position requires an experienced hands-on manual tester that is
very independent and has a strong personality. The culture is dynamic
and fast-paced.



Required Skills

* Proven skills in testing and quality assurance

* Ability to write and execute test plans and test cases with
minimal guidance

* Ability to document precise and concise defect reports and
test results

* Strong software analysis skills

* Strong SQL skills

* Strong understanding of requirements traceability

* Strong analytical, organizational and conceptual skills

* Excellent verbal and written communications skills

* Excellent time management and prioritization skills

* Ability to learn new technologies and product functionality in
an expedient manner

* Ability to adjust to changing focus and/or priorities

* Ability to successfully multi-task and set priorities as
needed.

* Ability to work in a dynamic, challenging and aggressively
fast-paced environment

* Scripting languages a plus

* XPath a plus



Personal Characteristics

* Highly motivated to succeed
* Self-starting and self-motivating
* Detail oriented
* Effective working independently and as a team member



Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering,
or related technical field.
* 5-7 years in the software test/QA field with growing levels of
responsibility.
* 5-7 years experience designing, developing, executing and
maintaining test cases and procedures.
* 5-7 years interpreting user scenarios and complex use cases to
develop manual test scripts.
* 2+ years working in UNIX or Linux environments.
* Experience testing in data-intensive environments.

If interested please send salary requirements and resumes to
ptate@localmatters.com